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TIL Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old ‘third-gender’ caveman,

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woEx7 TIL that not everybody sees beams coming from light bulbs, and that the beams are a product of astigmatism where the cornea is slightly curved rather than round.
awWao TIL some chips have trillions of transistors, or IBM's supercomputer, for example, has over 73 trillion transistors. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/12/07/the-first-computer-chip-with-a-trillion-transistors
kJeWB TIL the goods and services provided by coral reefs are valued at $2.7 trillion a year.
epNmk TIL about Peter Winston, a chess prodigy, who - having posted a peak rating of 2285 and, aged only 14, beaten US Champion Walter Browne in 37 moves! - was last seen on January 26, 1978 and disappeared without a trace just before the Great New York blizzard of 1978 hit the East Coast.
wLEv7 TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.